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Cuvier's Animal Kingdom: The Animal Kingdom Arranged After its Organisation: Forming a Natural History of Animals and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy: A New Edition: Illustrated
1854ref. 618549London: Wm.S. Orr & Co. 1854. Translated and adapted to the present state of science by Edward Blyth Robert Mudie George Johnston and J.O. Westford. A large handsome half-bound hard cover with gilt detail and tooling to green leather spine and a fully gilded pageblock. Includes three hundred engravings on wood and thirty-four on steel. In fine condition for the age with a full colour frontispiece. General shelf and handling wear including rubbing and wear to leather at bumped corners. The complementary boards are notably worn some scores to rear with rubbing to both causing colour loss. Worn at board edges. Within wear includes paper splits at both hinge points with blemishes to endpapers especially rear watermark to title page at leading edge foot tanning and foxing to initial pages and a small closed tear at the spine point head of the beautifully illustrated vibrantly coloured frontispiece. Throughout there are occasional spots of foxing but overall the content is clear and unmarked and in remarkable condition for its age. Page 557 contains a small pressed flower. Additional photographs or further details are available upon request. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Wm.S. Orr & Co. Hardcover
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